Where Did the Clinton Foundation End and the State Department Begin? http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/438834/where-did-clinton-foundation-end-and-state-department-beginJim Geraghty
August 10, 2016
From the midweek edition of the Morning Jolt…
Where Did the Clinton Foundation End and the State Department Begin?
Republicans may never again get such a beatable Democratic nominee:
Newly released e-mails from a top aide to Hillary Clinton show evidence of contacts between Clinton’s State Department and donors to her family foundation and political campaigns.
The e-mails released Tuesday by the conservative group Judicial Watch included a 2009 exchange in which Doug Band, a senior staff member at the Clinton Foundation, told a top Clinton aide at the State Department that it was “important to take care of” an individual, whose name was redacted.
Huma Abedin, the State Department aide, replied that “personnel has been sending him options.”
The evident effort at job placement may add to criticism that the State Department was too close to the foundation during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, despite her pledge not to take actions benefiting her family’s charitable organization. The Republican Party has said that Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, sought to help contributors to the foundation in a “pay-for-play” scheme.
If you thought this was the sort of back-room favor-trading that Secretary of State would have to renounce before taking the job… you’re right!
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